Joe Corona will get his chance with the United States after all.
The Tijuana attacker and one-time Mexican youth international is among 31 players called into a United States Under-23/Under-20 combined training camp by new U-23 coach Caleb Porter.
The players will train in Duisburg, Germany, from Nov. 7-16, with U-20 coach Tab Ramos leading those age players and U.S. Soccer youth technical director Claudio Reyna leading the U-23s while U-23 coach Caleb Porter tends to his responsibilities as University of Akron coach. Recently named U-18 coach Richie Williams will also be part of the coaching staff at the camp.
Here is the combined U-23/U-20 roster for the camp:
USA U-23/U-20 NOVEMBER CAMP ROSTER
GOALKEEPERS – David Bingham (San Jose Earthquakes; Pleasanton, Calif.), Cody Cropper (Ipswich Town; Athens, Ga.), Sean Johnson (Chicago Fire, Lilburn, Ga.), Jon Kempin (Sporting KC; Leawood, Kan.).
DEFENDERS - Gale Agbossoumonde (Eintracht Frankfurt; Syracuse, N.Y.), Anthony Brooks (Hertha Berlin; Berlin, Germany), Sean Cunningham (Molde; Troy, Mich.), Royal-Dominique Fennell (Stuttgarter Kickers; Göppingen, Germany), Greg Garza (Out of Contract; Grapevine, Texas), Perry Kitchen (D.C. United; Indianapolis, Ind.), Will Packwood (Birmingham City; Concord, Mass.), Zarek Valentin (Chivas USA; Lancaster, Pa.), Ethan White (D.C. United; Kensington, Md.)
MIDFIELDERS - Joe Corona (Club Tijuana; Chula Vista, Calif.), Mixx Diskerud (Stabæk; Oslo, Norway), Dilly Duka (Columbus Crew; Montville, N.J.), Jared Jeffrey (Mainz; Richardson, Texas), Sebastian Lletget (West Ham United; San Francisco, Calif.), Tyrone McCargo (Nürnberg; Nürnberg, Germany), Charles Renken (Hoffenheim; Edwardsville, Ill.), Caleb Stanko (Freiburg: Holly, Mich.), Jose Villarreal (LA Galaxy; Inglewood, Calif.).
FORWARDS - Terrence Boyd (Borussia Dortmund; Berlin, Germany), Conor Doyle (Derby County; McKinney, Texas), Josh Gatt (Molde; Plymouth, Mich.), Joe Gyau (Hoffenheim; Silver Spring, Md.), Jerome Kiesewetter (Hertha Berlin; Berlin, Germany), Omar Salgado (Vancouver Whitecaps; El Paso, Texas), Tony Taylor (Atlético Clube de Portugal; Jacksonville, Fla.), Bobby Wood (1860 Munich; Irvine, Calif.), Andrew Wooten (Kaiserslautern; Worms, Germany).
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"The goal was to put together a comprehensive group of players to further evaluate the pool while building towards Olympic qualifying," Porter said in a U.S. Soccer release. "By having a mix of domestic and overseas-based professionals, we can develop a clearer picture of who can help us in qualifying and hopefully the 2012 Olympic Games."
Other roster notes:
- Josh Gatt was included for the camp but won't participate on the field because of his recent hamstring injury.
- Age-eligible senior national team players such as Jozy Altidore, Juan Agudelo and Bill Hamid are not included in this camp and will most likely be part of the team that goes up against France and Slovenia later this month, but they are still under consideration (and are likely shoo-ins) for the Olympics.
- Eight MLS players (White, Kitchen, Valentin, Salgado, Duka, Johnson, Kempin and Bingham) will take part in the camp, and more could be added based on how the MLS playoffs unfold.
- Three players (Agbossoumonde, Diskerud and Johnson) have senior national team caps to their names.
- Bayern Munich youth product Fabian Huerzeler, who was part of the U.S. U-20 World Cup qualifying team, was not included on the roster.
- The six players who hail from Germany represent the most from any one area/state. California is next with five players, followed by Texas with four, Michigan with three and Maryland and Georgia with two apiece.
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What do you think about the roster?
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Mwanga is not eligible to play for the United States right now.
Here’s a link is to the home page of the Sportschule Wedau, where the training camp is going to be held. Looks nice. I gotta say, Klinsmann is a genius to come up with this idea.
http://www.sportschule-werdau.de
czech republic? please
no, he’s 21 and age-eligible.
i concur there might be nukes there too =P
Will it be the Germans who finally bring the scoring touch? Boyd has almost a 1:1 scoring ratio for Dortmund’s reserve squad and he just earned his first senior team call up at age 20.
Funny (hope it was a joke).
If not, too old (and not good enough)
That’s a buttload of German-American players. This is good news especially when talking about possible goal scorers at the forward position.
You people with Hurzeler need to relax. He just turned 18, and just started to play regularly with Bayern’s U23 squad. He’s eligible for the next olympic cycle as well. He’ll get there.
I hope my Union win tomorrow for sure, but here is who I think/want to be called up from our team anyway: MacMath, Okugo, Jack Mac, Williams.
Outside shot: Michael Farfan.
Also, what is the status on Mwanga’s citizenship? I would put him under outside shot as well.
Where is Charlie Davies?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Yep, and I hope he is brought into this camp- a) to give the Herc Gomez’s of the world a shot with the senior team, and b) give him a step back with players his own age for a bit.
Still in the playoffs, buddy. Note that no one still in the playoffs was called in, including Agudelo. He may yet be brought in after tomorrow’s game. 🙂
NO thanks, especially after Zemanski hacked one of our league’s best creative offensive players.
Those guys don’t even start for their team and when they do they often drop off in a very inconsistent basis.
I for one am surprised that Agudelo wasn’t called into this camp. Sure he’s supposedly part of our senior team, but hasn’t Klinsmann stressed players playing at every levell before the seniors? Plus, that camp seems far more suited for someone who isn’t even seeing minutes for his club team.
We really need to establish military bases in Brazil, Argentina and some other countries ASAP. I hear the Taliban is growing there. Get on it Obama
Yep: “More players may be added to the roster based on the results of the upcoming MLS playoff matches.”
Read earlier that he’s looking to play for his father’s home country of Peru.
Any youth players on an MLS team are unlikely to get released unless their team loses. If they do, then they’ll proably fly over
It says that in the article…
The large amount of players who were born elsewhere but moved to the US at a relatively young age are representative of the large immigrant population in the US; the German-Americans are representative of something else ubiquitously American-our militaristic foreign policy!
Might not have that going on for much longer hahah
Isn’t he 23 already? Might be 24 by the Olympics, and if that is the case I doubt they’d waste an overage spot on him.
I heard from someone on Big Soccer that Hurzeler hasn’t filed his switch yet… Not sure how official that is.
And Adu and other Philly youth players like Okugo and JMac are still in the playoffs so it’s unlikely to see them released
Is there any chance players might be added to the list if their MLS team gets knocked out of the playoffs?
Right, and it also says some players may be added based on results of Playoff games.
That list of forwards has a lot of promise. Those kids are at good clubs in good leagues; I’m sure someone will turn out (Not to mention the two biggest names that aren’t even on that list).
Also no Stefan Jerome who’s playing in the Czech Republic.
Gil is only 17, depending on RSL’s playoff run, does he get named to camp?
No Alfredo Morales from Hertha Berlin. Wonder if he opted for another country.
He’s been playing with Bayern’s U23 and U19 teams and isn’t on a pro contract yet.
Haven’t seen the name Charles Renken in a while. Hopefully kid can get over his injury troubles. What’s the word on Alex Zahavi? I thought I heard something about his switching allegiance to Israel? All in all, this crop of players looks very promising, especially when you throw in guys like Adu, Altidore, Agudelo, Shea, and Hamid. I’ve already put 10 bucks on us medaling next summer, so this is good stuff.
Zemanski is too old. Gavin is eligible, though.
What happened to Fabian Huertzeler (or whatever)? Maybe he is u18 but haven’t heard his name in a while.
No Blair Gavin or Ben Zemanksi.
Well Adu might have something called the MLS playoffs going on.
Very excited about this list of players. Have to admit I’m suprised by Renken and Tony Taylor (though I know he’s been scoring quite a bit in Portugal 2nd division). The only one that I can think of that is missing is Fabian Hurzeler but with that midfield, it doesn’t seem like he’ll be missed much.
future looks bright
With so many Germans, no Fabian Hurzeler? Not miffed, but certainly curious.
Nevermind, probably has something to do with the Union still being in the playoffs.
US Soccer also mentions that other players might be added based on the results of the MLS playoffs.
Well, eventually he will. He finally cracked the first team, now just needs to get on the field.
But this isn’t Ives’ fault. US Soccer listed him incorrectly.
Because adu is with the senior team
+5
No Zac MacMath?
wow, this Olympic team is going to be amazin!
No Fabian Hürzeler. Glaring omission. No Freddy Adu even he’s not that old.
Boyd plays for Dortmund
Amazing how many of our youngsters are in Germany at the moment.
Some good names. Really exited for this next cycle of young talent.